July –December 2021
Contents Originals Ceremony of Innocence A Passage North Hello, Stranger A Trillion Trees Paul Accidental Gods Mozart in Motion Just the Plague OST Orwell’s Roses From Another World Slime Amnion Fried Eggs and Rioja
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Earthlings The Museum of Whales Anatomy of a Killing Stasiland People From My Neighbourhood The Godless Gospel Between Light and Storm Not A Novel The Faraway Nearby Wanderlust Brilliant Maps Granta Editions Stet Somewhere Towards the End
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Ceremony of Innocence © Howard Sooley
Madeleine Bunting
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is a prize-winning author and journalist. Her books include the nonLabours of Love, Love of Country, The Plot and a novel, Island Song, all published by Granta Books.
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When Reem goes missing in Egypt, a trail leads back to the secretive business belonging to the wealthy Wilcox Smiths – the former diplomat Martin and his enigmatic wife Phoebe – and their connections to the Middle East. From 1970s Tehran to modern-day Bahrain, via the English countryside, Ceremony of Innocence explores one family’s entanglement with the aftermath of empire and the establishment’s ruthless pursuit of power in the new world order.
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When a young Muslim woman goes missing, a family’s dark entanglement with Britain’s imperial legacy comes to light, in this evocative page-turner for readers of Maggie O’Farrell.
‘Striking… the irresolvable mystery of this story, in common with all great fiction, is the human heart’ Observer FICTION £12.99 July Demy 216 × 135mm HB 400pp No Canada Rights Serial rights 978 1 78378 749 4
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A Passage North From a prize-winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality. It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s former caregiver has died. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn northern province for the funeral, so he travels into the soul of a country devastated by violence, and begins to meditate on his own yearning for a sense of purpose and meaning.
© Ruvin De Silva
Anuk Arudpragasam
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currently lives between Sri Lanka and India. His debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Praise for The Story of a Brief Marriage: ‘Written with subtlety, tact and intelligence… it is a great achievement, one of the best books I have read in years’ Colm Tóibín
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he Greeks call the desire to connect with strangers ‘philoxenia’. The word has its roots in the New Testament. ‘Do not be forgetful of philoxenia,’ Hebrews 13:2 says, ‘for through this, some have entertained angels unawares.’ Although humanity’s most ancient texts are alive to the risks posed by strangers, they also pulse with the electric thrill, the sheer potential, that comes from opening up our lives to difference. They testify to the human desire to reach out, to connect with the unknown.
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NON-FICTION £16.99 July Demy 216 × 135mm HB All territories 336pp US, serial and audio (US only) rights 978 1 78378 564 3
Hello, Stranger How to Welcome the World
Will Buckingham Drawing on humanity’s long history of welcoming strangers, Hello, Stranger asks how – when we are able to – we might better open up. We navigate our interactions with strangers according to a host of unwritten rules, rituals and (sometimes embarrassing) attempts at politeness. But what if the people we meet were not a problem, but a gift? Taking in a Roman statesman beset by loneliness, a gentrifying city in modern-day Myanmar and a divided community in Balsall Heath, Hello, Stranger offers a powerful antidote to our increasingly atomised world.
is a writer, academic and traveller who has an MA in anthropology and a PhD in philosophy. Born in Britain, he lives, at present, in Bulgaria.
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of tropical forests came in the Andean Mountains of Ecuador. It had been a long drive from Quito and evening was drawing on as we climbed into forests shrouded in clouds – clouds whose coverage was so extensive and permanent that no cartographers had ever mapped the terrain, and no satellites had ever observed the surface beneath. Breathing the sopping-wet air and peering into the gloom, I could understand why people occasionally showed up here believing that the trees hid an El Dorado of gold.
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A Trillion Trees
How We Can Reforest Our World
Fred Pearce A revelatory scientific perspective on the world’s forests, offering reasons to be hopeful for a greener future. Trees are one of the most significant lines of defence against climate change, but for the Earth to remain a habitable place we need more: one trillion more. Time is running out, but there is hope. As Pearce argues in this inspiring new book: we don’t even need to plant these trees, we just need to stand back and let nature, and those who dwell in the forests, do the rest. Combining vivid travel writing with cutting-edge science, A Trillion Trees is both an environmental call to arms and a celebration of our planet’s vast arboreal riches. Praise for Fred Pearce: ‘Fred is one of the few people that understand the world as it really is’ James Lovelock
fred pearce is an award-winning journalist and author, reporting from 87 countries. He has written 14 books on environmental and development issues, translated into 24 languages.
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has published a collection of poetry, Life Without Air (Granta Poetry, 2020), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Paul, her debut novel, has won a Betty Trask award.
Paul Daisy Lafarge From an award-winning, exhilarating talent comes a mesmeric debut novel about a young woman falling under the spell of an older man. Frances is spending a summer volunteering, hoping to distract herself from a scandal that drove her out of Paris, her graduate research unfinished and her sense of self unmoored. She comes under the influence of Paul, a charismatic, domineering older man who owns the eco-farm Noa Noa. As his hold over her tightens, Frances watches her plans, and her certainties, fragment.
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A compelling and perturbing story of power, passivity and the cage of being ‘good’, Paul introduces a writer of extraordinary perspicacity and lyricism.
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Accidental Gods
On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have accidentally become gods in their lifetimes – from Christopher Columbus in the New World to Prince Philip in the South Pacific. Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of mangods, deified politicians and imperialists, mystics, militants and explorers. From the National Geographic article that elevated Haile Selassie from emperor to messiah, to the unlikely officers hailed as gods during the British Raj, this fascinating book chronicles an impulse as old as time and shows that the desire for deification is with us still.
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Anna Della Subin
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is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School. Her essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times and the New Yorker. Accidental Gods is lives in Dublin.
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he orchestra’s opening phrase is a brief and sonorously conventional fanfare that is immediately, astonishingly, answered with an antic impudence by the solo instrument itself. No one would have seen this coming; the soloist’s concerto of the age until the orchestra has fully unwound some opening themes. But the keyboard cannot wait to intervene, as if music itself suddenly cannot wait to show what it can
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BIOGRAPHY £20.00 September Royal 234 × 153mm HB 496pp All territories US, translation, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 599 5
Mozart in Motion His Work and His World in Pieces
Patrick Mackie
Mozart holds a central place in our culture, and his works are widely loved. But how much do we really understand of the music that is played, and what can it reveal to us of the great composer? In exhilarating, fresh and transformative prose, Mozart in Motion takes us on a unique journey inside the experience of listening to Mozart’s music. In the process we gain new perspectives on why his works move us so intensely, on the major and the lesser-known moments of Mozart’s life, on the period he was writing in and on the ways we live now.
© Peter James Millson
The music and life of one of modernity’s most visionary figures, through his most significant compositions, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction.
is a published poet with Carcarnet and CB Editions and was a visiting fellow at Harvard.
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Born in 1943, ludmila ulitskaya
is one of Russia’s most accomplished and far-reaching contemporary writers. She is the author of numerous plays, stories and novels, and her work has won or been nominated for prestigious international literary awards, including the Man Booker International and the Prix Médicis.
Just the Plague Ludmila Ulitskaya
Translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon
An intense and dramatic reimagining of a plague outbreak in 1930s Moscow invites parallels with our pandemic-stricken times. When an error at a research laboratory releases a virulent strain of plague into Moscow, Stalin’s state machinery turns with terrifying efficiency, rounding up dozens of people. But for many, the distinction between enforced, life-sparing isolation and the churn of political surveillance and arrests is barely detectable. Based on real events, this taut, gripping novel, rediscovered by the author during lockdown and published now for the first time, asks profound questions about the balance between individual liberty and repressive state power during a pandemic.
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‘A voice of moral authority’ Masha Gessen ‘One of the greatest living Russian writers’ Gary Shteyngart FICTION £9.99 September B format 198 × 129mm flapped PB 160pp All territories US, serial and audio rights ISBN 978 1 78378 805 7
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OST
An Untold History of Nazi Germany’s Forced Labour Camps
Memorial
Translated from the Russian by Georgia Thomson
An extraordinary assemblage of revelatory documents and testimony from the Nazi forced labour camps of the ‘Eastern Workers’. An Ostarbeiter was an ‘Eastern Worker’, forced labour rounded up from Soviet territories captured by the Nazis, distinguished by the label ‘OST’ sewn onto their uniforms. By the end of World War II, it is estimated that there were approximately 3.2 million Ostarbeiter, the majority Ukrainian, many of them younger than 18 years old, living and working in guarded labour camps. Many repatriated Ostarbeiter were ostracised or sent to the Gulag after the war, regarded as traitors in the Soviet Union.
memorial
International is a Russian historical and civil rights society focused on recording and publicising the Soviet Union’s totalitarian past, and monitoring human rights in Russia and other post-Soviet states.
georgia thomson
is a translator from Russian to English.
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OST, based on over two hundred personal accounts, hundreds of hours of interviews and over 350,000 letters, is an important record of Ostarbeiter collective memory.
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man planted roses and fruit trees in a world in turmoil and strife. The gesture of planting the roses and launching the garden could mean a thousand things, but for now let it mean a collaboration with the world of and work of plants, the establishment and tending of a few more carbon-sequestering, oxygen-producing organisms, the desire to be agrarian, settled, to bet on a future in which the roses and trees would bloom for years and the latter would bear fruit in decades to come or even, as he wrote, a century hence.
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Orwell’s Roses Rebecca Solnit
‘Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening’ wrote George Orwell in 1940 from his cottage in Hertfordshire, where he carefully tended his garden. Inspired by a visit to his cottage, Rebecca Solnit explores Orwell’s passion for gardening as an act and commitment inseparable from his political vision and his writing. From a history of roses to discussions of climate change, it is a fresh reading of a towering figure of the 20th century, which finds solace and solutions for our 21st-century world. Praise for Rebecca Solnit: ‘She has a rare gift: the ability to turn the act of cognition, of arriving at a coherent point of view, into compelling moral drama’ New York Times ‘[Solnit] writes with the clarity of a seer and the scope of a visionary’ Spectator
© Trent Davis Bailey
Solnit meets Orwell, in a riveting alternative journey through the legacy, teachings and life of George Orwell, from the author of Men Explain Things to Me.
is author of, among other books, Recollections of My NonFIRST LOVE Existence, Men Explain Things to Me PB £8.99 and Wanderlust. 978 1 78378 324 3
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MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME HB £12.99 978 1 78378 079 2
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NONEXISTENCE BPB £9.99 978 1 78378 549 0
WHOSE STORY IS THIS? HB £12.99 978 1 78378 543 8
THE MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS HB £12.99 978 1 78378 355 7
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From Another World Evelina Santangelo © Rino Bianchi
Translated from the Italian by Ruth Clarke
evelina santangelo
is the author of six novels. From Another World is the in English.
is a translator from Italian to English.
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An eerie, page-turning take on the Syrian migrant crisis and the rise of European ethno-nationalism, from an award-winning Italian writer, published in English for the first time. Europe. 2020–2021. Migrants are dying in international waters, regarded by port authorities as nuisances. In Brussels, Karolina mourns her missing son, whose laptop history is filled with visits to extremist websites. Dragging a red suitcase, 15-year-old Khaled treks to Sicily, travelling against the flow of other refugees, on an urgent but mysterious journey. At once a horror reflection on loss, love in blackened masterwork from writers.
story, a quest narrative and a grief and the struggle to brave times, From Another World is a one of Italy’s most important
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An original and revelatory exploration of the hidden world of slime – the substance upon which we and our world depend. Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid; it inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination; we know little about it and yet it underpins all our bodily functions and sustains all ecosystems. With curiosity, authority and wit, Susanne Wedlich leads us on a rich scientific and cultural journey through this slippery subject, from the debunked theory of primordial slime and the ectoplasm of ghost stories to the inside of our guts and the nebulous beauty of a jellyfish.
book. is a literary translator from German and Turkish into English.
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is a science journalist based in Munich.
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Amnion © Alex Sy-Quia
Stephanie Sy-Quia
stephanie sy - quia is a writer and critic based in London. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Granta and the Guardian.
An extraordinary debut, a book-length poem from a significant young thinker on migratory histories, race and colonialism. Empires fall like milk teeth Stephanie Sy-Quia’s Amnion is a lucid exploration of migratory and colonial histories, charting what it means to grow up in a family divided by geography and language.
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This book-length poem asks us how we love and live with and through the contexts that make us. Sy-Quia weaves memoir, essay and poetry with the eye of an archivist and the linguistic power of an etymologist, as contemporary issues of class and race are disseminated through ranging historical narratives, both personal and public.
POETRY £10.99 November B format 198 × 129mm flapped PB 80pp All territories US, translation, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 774 6 18
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Fried Eggs and Rioja What to Drink with Absolutely Everything
The ultimate go-to guide for which wine to drink with dinner, lunch or just because. From kitchen suppers and comfort food to celebration meals and festive feasts, Victoria Moore helps you choose the wine that will taste most delicious with whatever you’re eating. This new, food-led take on the bestselling The Wine Dine Dictionary also includes her favourite at-home recipes, plus quick-look diagrams for pairing.
is an award-winning wine writer. She is the author of How to Drink and The Wine Dine Dictionary, both published by Granta Books.
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Praise for The Wine Dine Dictionary : ‘Unbelievably useful’ India Knight ‘Intelligent, accessible, and incredibly useful’ Diana Henry
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Earthlings Sayaka Murata
Mind-blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata – author of the bestseller Convenience Store Woman – asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? As a child, Natsuki believed she was an alien, a different species to her earthling parents and friends. Now she lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to be normal. But the buried horrors of Natsuki’s past are pursuing her. As she flees her suburban existence for the wild landscapes of her childhood, a question hangs over her: will she survive or will she escape?
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Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori
A bestselling global sensation, sayaka murata has won all of Japan’s major literary prizes, and been named a Vogue Woman of the Year. Her novel Convenience Store Woman has sold more than two million copies, and has been translated into 23 languages worldwide.
‘Gut-shredding… Earthlings is a frequently disturbing but pacey read, with its own off-key humour. I ripped through it’ Observer ‘Visceral, unforgettable… magical and terrifying… Earthlings is a radical rollercoaster’ Irish Times FICTION £8.99 July B format 198 × 129mm PB 256pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 569 8
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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland
A. Kendra Greene
TRAVEL WRITING £9.99 July B format 198 × 129mm PB 272pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 594 0
Meet the obsessives and dreamers of this remote island nation, and travel through the collections of Iceland’s eclectic museums and into its curious past. ‘Shot through with glee and irreverence… [A work] of longing and love’ Guardian a . kendra greene
is an essayist, printer and maker of artist’s books.
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Anatomy of a Killing Life and Death on a Divided Island
Ian Cobain
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The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across decades.
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HISTORY £9.99 August B format 198 × 129mm PB 288pp All territories Serial and audio rights 978 1 84627 642 2
‘A precise, compelling history of the Troubles. It’s one of the best I’ve read’ Roddy Doyle ‘Skilful… [and] chilling’ Observer is an award-winning investigative reporter and author of Cruel Britannia and The History Thieves.
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Anna Funder The bestselling contemporary classic that explores the lives and legacies of those who lived in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. ‘A classic’ Guardian ‘Essential reading’ Irish Times ‘A brilliant and necessary book’ Rachel Cusk anna funder
is the author of Stasiland, All That I Am and The Girl With the Dogs.
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People From My Neighbourhood Hiromi Kawakami
Translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen
‘Beguiling’ Sunday Times ted goossen
is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists. is Professor of Japanese Literature at York University, Toronto.
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A pocket-sized collection of playful, delightfully delectable Japanese fiction, from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.
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Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall
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The Godless Gospel Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher?
Julian Baggini Do Jesus’s teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? julian baggini
is a philosopher and author. He has written many books, including the bestselling How the World Thinks.
In The Godless Gospel, Julian Baggini challenges our assumptions about Jesus – and the Christian values he promotes – by focusing solely on his teachings in the Gospel. Stripping away the religious elements, Baggini finds that Jesus’s words amount to a purposeful and powerful philosophy, one that still remains applicable to the world we live in today. ‘One of the most eloquent and attractive atheist voices of the last 15 years… Baggini does a better job than anyone else I’ve read at transposing Jesus into a moral philosophical key’ Prospect
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‘A superbly lucid and emotionally involving account of the New Testament story, full of thought-provoking insights’ Sarah Bakewell
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POPULAR PHILOSOPHY £9.99 September 304pp B format 198 × 129mm PB All territories US, translation and serial rights. 978 1 78378 232 1
How We Live With Other Species
Esther Woolfson A landmark book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals, spanning time from Genesis to climate change. ‘A profoundly moving and important book’ Isabella Tree ‘Immaculately researched and compulsively readable’ Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast esther woolfson is the author of Corvus: A Life with Birds and Field Notes From a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary.
CULTURAL HISTORY/ NATURE WRITING £9.99 September B format 198 × 129mm PB 368pp All territories US, translation, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 280 2 october
Not A Novel Jenny Erpenbeck
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Between Light and Storm
Translated from the German by Kurt Beals
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning German author.
‘The most profound, intelligent, humane and important writer of our times’ Neel Mukherjee is the author of many celebrated novels, including The End of Days and Go, Went, Gone.
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‘Europe’s outstanding literary seer’ Guardian
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Rebecca Solnit The inspiring memoir about empathy, family, illness and the stories we tell about ourselves and others, from the author of Men Explain Things to Me. ‘Finely wrought, intense and eloquent’ Guardian ‘An exhilarating form of literary cartography… wonderful’ Financial Times MEMOIR £9.99 October B-format 198 × 129mm PB 352pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 736 4
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Wanderlust A History of Walking
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Rebecca Solnit
is the author of, among many other books, Men Explain Things To Me and Recollections of My NonExistence.
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The meandering modern classic that explores the historical, political and philosophical landscapes of one of life’s most fundamental acts. ‘A magisterial history of walking’ Guardian ‘Thoughtful and fascinating’ Observer NON-FICTION £9.99 October 198 × 129mm PB 352pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 735 7
An Atlas for Curious Minds
Ian Wright with Infographic.ly A flexibound edition of the bestselling hardback: a book that transforms fascinating data into revelatory maps and turns the world on its head. Revelatory, thought-provoking and fun, Brilliant Maps is a unique atlas of culture, history, politics and miscellanea. For graphic design enthusiasts, compulsive Wikipedia readers and cartography lovers alike, this book will change the way you see the world and your place in it.
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Brilliant Maps ian wright runs Brilliant Maps, one of the most-visited cartographic sites on the internet. infographic . ly is a UAE based data design and visualization agency.
‘[A] thoughtful, fun and beautifully illustrated guide to our constantly surprising planet… terrifically interesting stuff’ Big Issue ‘A brilliant collection of facts and figures about our world’ Four Shires Magazine WITH A NEW PREFACE BY TIM HARFORD paperback
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Editions Train Dreams Denis Johnson denis johnson
was the author of six novels, three poetry collections and one book of reportage.
‘A work of extraordinary power and consummate skill... A masterpiece’ Observer
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An epic miniature of one man’s life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.
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An Editor’s Life
Diana Athill Candid tales from Diana Athill’s long life in publishing and her journey into the world of literary greatness.
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‘A little gem’ Observer ‘A joy to read from start to finish’ Sunday Independent ‘An enveloping blast of nostalgia’ Marie Claire
MEMOIR £9.99 December B format198 × 129mm PB 256pp 978 1 78378 746 3
Diana Athill The Costa Book Award-winning memoir on what it means to grow old, taking in the final decades of Diana Athill’s life.
‘A ruminative read’ Sunday Times diana athill
was an acclaimed memoirist and editor. She died in 2019.
MEMOIR £9.99 December B-format 198 × 129mm PB 192pp 978 1 78378 745 6
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‘A moving and humorous account of old age… full of joy’ Irish Times
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Britain’s most prestigious literary magazine brings you prize-winning new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from around the world. In 2020, Will Harris won a Forward Prize, Don Mee Choi won a National Book Award, and Souvankham Thammavongsa won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Bruno Fert’s photoessay ‘Refuge’ was a finalist for the Amnesty Media Awards.
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Pushcart Prize XLV featured Julia Armfield, David Means and Poppy Sebag-Montefiore, while fiction by Mbozi Haimbe and Kikuko Tsumura was selected for Best Debut Short Stories 2020, and Joseph Koerner’s essay was selected for The Best American Essays 2020. Three out of six authors on the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award shortlist were published by Granta: Daniel O’Malley, Alexia Tolas and the eventual winner Niamh Campbell. Granta 156 will be published in July 2021. 30 30
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sigrid rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia and the memoirs Everything Is Wonderful and Mayhem.
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Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home?
Featuring Eliane Brum, Francisco Cantú, Bathsheba Demuth, Sinéad Gleeson, Kate Harris, Emmanuel Iduma, Kapka Kassabova, Jessica J. Lee, Sven Lindqvist, Ben Mauk, Pascale Petit, Johny Pitts, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Adam Weymouth and Javier Zamora.
william atkins is the author of The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey, which won the 2019 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, and a book about places of political exile, forthcoming in 2022.
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In 1984 Granta published its first issue devoted to travel. Nearly forty years after that genre-defining volume, a new generation of writers from around the globe offer a fresh vision of what travel writing can be: from Antarctica and the deserts of the US–Mexico border, to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei.
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